Academics
At Bourne College boys studied everything from book-keeping to botany, from chemistry to carpentry and from elocution to electricity. Here they exercised… Much interest is attached to games, with the conviction that proper physical culture is not only a source of pleasure and an auxiliary to health, but is a stimulus to the intellect … and ate… Care is taken to provide a good substantial diet. Boys may be supplied with ham or other meat for breakfast at a charge of 25/- per term and day pupils may have dinners at 9d each … and slept… in a light, lofty and well-ventilated dormitory. A thorough system of baths and lavatories is also provided … and all, in the early days, for only twenty four guineas per term.
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